GALLERY ONE
AFTER WALTER HOPPS
MON 09 MAY 9:00AM - FRI 03 JUNE 8.00PM
ARTWORK DROP-OFFS NO LATER THAN 3.00PM, THURSDAY 02 JUNE
GALLERY ALUMNI CATCH UPS 11 & 12 MAY, 11.00AM-1.00PM
CLOSING PARTY & SILENT AUCTION FRI 03 JUNE FROM 5.30PM
NO SUBMISSION FEE
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
PLEASE NOTE if you are new to exhibiting and require significant assistance with installation, we ask that you bring your work on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, as our Curator Amber Smith will be onsite to help.
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
PLEASE NOTE if you are new to exhibiting and require significant assistance with installation, we ask that you bring your work on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, as our Curator Amber Smith will be onsite to help.
Image: Walter Hopps installing work by Kurt Schwitters.
Throughout May, Platform Arts is handing over the control of their curated gallery program, inviting artists to direct the content of a new open call exhibition, After Walter Hopps. Operating in reverse from the standard exhibition format of fixed works and a preview, After Walter Hopps will open with an empty gallery space, and will culminate in one conclusive hang and exhibition presentation at the ‘final viewing’, silent auction and closing party on Friday, 03 June.
Over 22 days, artists will have the opportunity to bring in new and existing works which will be installed in the gallery space on a first-come, first-served basis in a challenging curatorial exercise. The overall aim is to fill the gallery from floor to ceiling, wall to wall, in a show that takes shape both cumulatively and expansively.
After Walter Hopps aims at removing the restrictions enforced in an institutional gallery setting – opening it up for civic reclamation through showcasing the works of all who dare to call themselves an artist, irrespective of profile or reputation. Platform Arts will accept anything that:
the maker wishes to call art
that can fit through the gallery doors
that can be constructed in the space
that happens or is performed in the space.
No pre-registration is required; just show up with your work during our opening hours (scroll down to read The fine print). PLEASE NOTE if you are new to exhibiting and require significant assistance with installation, we ask that you bring your work on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, as our Curator Amber Smith will be onsite to help.
Walter Hopps famously said, ‘I'm not just interested in artists who are deservedly famous,’ [or] the gallery's ‘right person.’ ‘Some people I've shown will never be; that doesn't make their art less interesting to me.’ After Walter Hopps is Platform Arts' attempt to create a local and expanded arts environment that encourages experimentation, creative risk, cross-disciplinary dialogue, and constructive chaos.
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This exhibition takes its inspiration from Walter Hopps' 36 Hours project held at MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art), Washington, USA in 1978. A renowned non-conformist, maverick curator, and transcender of boundaries, Walter Hopps’ seminal project 36 Hours was an open call for any artist to take a single work to the gallery without any chance of rejection or censorship, where he would personally hang the works as they arrived. The show was inclusive, making no distinction between artists or selection of works, the only limitation being a size restriction.
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No pre-registration is required; just show up with your work during our opening hours (see top of page).
Upon arrival, artists will be asked to fill out a digital form to identify their work, set a price, provide contact details and confirm attendance at the closing party on 03 June.
Platform Arts staff will be in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition (09 May - 03 June) assisting artists with their install needs. Some basic equipment will be provided for artists to use to install their works.
All physical works installed in the exhibition will be for sale via silent auction at the closing party on 03 June. Platform takes a 20% commission on all artwork sales. It is condition of submitting work that artists must attend this event.
Artists will need to install their work around the works that are already installed in the space. They are not allowed to obscure, cover or damage another person's artwork when installing their work and can use any of the remaining available space (floor, wall, or ceiling).
